Schorl (RARE North Carolina!) ex Seaman Museum

Item Description

RARE schorl from a very obscure Cleveland County, North Carolina pegmatite. MINDAT does not list the Forest Hamrich Pegmatite. This is a sharp, partially terminated, highly lustrous, jet-black schorl crystal with trigonal form and striated prism faces. Part of the termination is contacted, but there is very little, if any, damage, per se. Ex E.W. Heinrich Collection, with his number on the base. Abe (Eberhardt) Heinrich was Professor of Geology at the University of Michigan from 1947-1983, curator of the mineral collection there and was primarily interested in pegmatite and carbonatite geology and mineralogy. His extensive collection was donated to the A.E. Seaman Museum at Michigan Tech.